Gender equity and schooling: linking research and policy

ID:	HARP-181
Title:	Gender equity and schooling: linking research and policy
Source:	Canadian Journal of Education , v.21(4) Fall’96 pg 433-452
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Year:	1996
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Keywords:	Canada, discrimination, economic, social, and cultural rights, gender equality, human rights, woman, sexism, feminist, educational rights, education
Abstract:	In Canada over the last 25 years, a variety of approaches to gender equity and schooling has developed. The history of educational research and policy making on this topic reveals how the two activities have been linked, primarily through the work of teachers and their organizations. Although sex-role socialization theory has been most influential in shaping government policies and pedagogical practices, teachers also have drawn on a wider body of research to inform their work in schools. Feminist research has had a noticeable effect on education policy makers. Although a significant portion of the most important and influential research has come from the field of women’s studies, feminist scholars in Faculties of Education as well as teacher-researchers have also made key contributions. Indeed, the nature and purpose of feminist research in education, whether it occurs inside or outside Faculties of Education, is such that no artificial polarity between research and policy is created; rather, there is a conscious linking of the two — research informs policy making, and policy successes and failures inform research. At the same time, some specific types and forms of feminist research have been more widely influential in the policy arena than have others. The recent history of research and policy making illustrates both how these two activities are linked, largely through the efforts of female educators in a variety of roles, and why some research approaches are more acceptable to and are used more often by policy makers than are others.
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